Prestigious Annual Awards Program Recognizes Standout Marketing, Advertising and Sales Technology Around the World SPLICE Software, which specializes in using big and small data and voice technologies to drive customer engagement, announced that it is the winner of the "Best Overall Conversational Marketing Company" award by MarTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global marketing, sales and advertising technology industry today.…

Founded Inside Area 120, Google’s Incubator for Experimental Projects, AdLingo Helps Brands Engage Customers in Real-Time Conversations Directly Within Display Ads AdLingo, a new platform built within Area 120, Google’s incubator for experimental projects, is using the power of display advertising to help brands deliver their conversational assistants to their customers at scale. Meet AdLingo (@weareadlingo): a new conversational marketing platform from Area 120, @Google’s experimental lab. AdLingo makes it easier…

Drift, the world’s leading conversational marketing and sales platform, introduced new products and partnerships built to connect businesses with customers now, not later, at HYPERGROWTH 2018. The company announced Conversational Advertising, Drift Assistant, the acquisition of Siftrock and partnerships with Marketo, Demandbase and Outreach. “The last decade in B2B sales and marketing was all about the business following up later,” said David Cancel, Drift Founder & CEO. “But today, B2B sales and marketing has to be…

Drift Enables Marketers to Cut out Traditional, Tedious Sales and Marketing Processes Using the Power of a Conversation Drift, the world’s first conversational marketing and sales platform, has been named a “Cool Vendor” in Gartner’s new report, Cool Vendors in Conversational Marketing. Gartner conducts annual evaluations of emerging technology companies that are changing the market by addressing a wide array of industry issues and trends. For the Cool Vendors in Conversational Marketing report, Gartner identified…

New Acquisition Deepens Investment in AI and Conversational Marketing to Transform the Way Brands Engage with Customers Today, Leanplum announced the acquisition of Connecto. Connecto is a provider of AI-powered conversational marketing. With this acquisition, Leanplum is taking the next step forward in transforming the relationship between brands and their customers. By bringing together Connecto's AI-driven automation with Leanplum's mobile engagement platform, brands will be able to engage their customers in real-time…

Would You Like To Understand What Customers Really Want And How To Give It To Them? Then Start Conversations! Conversational Marketing Is The Latest Buzzword In Marketing Conversational marketing is a unique and emerging marketing methodology through which brands use one-to-one conversations that are personalized in order to learn and remember customer interests through automated technology. In short, conversational marketing is a distinctive interaction of ‘You tell me and I’ll listen’ instead of I’ll tell you and you…

Solvvy, the leader in conversational customer experience, unveiled its "Conversational Concierge," a Next-Gen Chatbot Platform with a beautifully redesigned experience that allows top brands to effortlessly deliver intelligent, personalized, on-brand support to customers across channels. Businesses who deploy Solvvy provide their customers with a conversational experience which 'traditional' chatbots fail to achieve, with powerful out of the box capabilities that deliver outstanding ROI. "There are a number of…

Conversational experience and eSignature management cut out physical paperwork for automated, efficient operations Pypestream, the leading conversational AI platform with all-in-one cloud messaging, announces the market-first integration with DocuSign to deliver eSignature capabilities within digital conversational experiences. Berkley Medical Management Solutions uses the solution to streamline the case management process for clients of Berkley operating units. “Today, and especially during a pandemic, immediacy is…

Survey Reveals Nearly Half of Consumers Welcome Texts from Brands, a Significant Behavior Shift that Paves the Way for SMS Marketing to Become Top Revenue Channel for D2C Brands High-Growth Women's Healthcare Brand, Lauren Bosworth's Love Wellness, Sees Instant ROI with SMSBump by Yotpo Yotpo, the leading eCommerce marketing platform, has announced that, in light of a recent consumer survey conducted in April 2020, consumer use of mobile commerce has accelerated to position SMS as the best channel for brands to drive…

Today’s Daily MarTech Round-up covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience AI and ML announcements from Terminus (ABM), Unica (Marketing Automation), Zeal (Content Management), Cyara (Customer experience), and Tencent Cloud (Video). Chat + ABM: Terminus Buys B2B Conversation Chat Platform Ramble to Sync Sales & Chat Data ABM teams can now greet each of their target accounts with their initial name and set up phenomenal customer support. That’s the power of Account intelligence…

Marchex Conversational AI named the industry leader in converting first party data to optimize customer experience and business outcomes Marchex, a leading conversational analytics company that connects the voice of the customer to your business, announced that Opus Research has named Marchex as the leading Conversational Intelligence solution provider in its newly released Conversational Intelligence Intelliview research report. The report reveals which providers of tools, services and platforms have most successfully…

Speakeasy AI delivers next generation conversational AI with powerful controls and customization Speakeasy AI announced the release and general availability of its next generation conversational voice bot, Sky. This latest release works seamlessly within the Speakeasy AI solution, including Amplify™ customer journey reporting and Nerv, our custom voice neural net. Speakeasy AI can now allow for management of complete conversational AI experiences within Sky while maintaining BYOB (bring your own bot) capabilities within…

New product unifies sales and marketing data so you can engage in real-time conversations now, not later Drift, the leading conversational marketing platform, announced the launch of Drift Audiences. This is the first solution that unifies your sales and marketing data silos to reveal who is on your website and where, so you can engage in real-time conversations and unlock new revenue. “There are a lot of tools that can tell you who is on your website, and a lot of others that can give you a report that you can act on…

Messaging apps; speech-based assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa; and chatbots are entering the marketplace in large scale, all with a goal of enhancing everyday life. Businesses are taking notice; leveraging the technology to analyze peoples’ behavior in order to create a more personalized and efficient customer experience. “Their experience in solving complex business challenges and delivering value through the innovative use of technology makes them the perfect partner to bring CSG Conversational AI to…

The company rebrands and announces the availability of its platform to developers for free Rammer, the Techstars-backed Conversational Intelligence-as-a-Service solution, is now Symbl.ai. The rebrand comes after a successful $1.8M fundraise in September '19 and the subsequent doubling in size of the company as it continues to gain momentum through early client and developer adoption. "Understanding the unbiased meaning and untangling the subjectivity of conversations is the crucial element that our new "Symbl" identity…

Content Marketing has fundamentally changed over the past few years as consumers increasingly rely on digital content. The number of global internet users has skyrocketed since 2005, and consumers now spend an average of 8.8 hours each day engaging with digital content. With such an increase in the absorption of digital content, your organization’s online presence must be a larger priority than ever before.  Cutting through the noise of emails received, blog posts read, and ads viewed is the key to successful Marketing in…

Sinch AB (publ), a global leader in cloud communications for mobile customer engagement, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Chatlayer BV for an Enterprise Value of EUR 6.9 million. Founded in Antwerp in early 2018, ChatLayer.ai is a cloud-based software platform that lets businesses create multi-lingual chatbots and voicebots using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The platform enables intelligent two-way conversations between businesses and their customers across…

Headliner Labs' Caroline Klatt and Dana Gibber join ForwardPMX to Launch the Agency's Voice and Conversational Commerce Capabilities Award-winning, global brand performance agency, ForwardPMX, announced the acquisition of leading voice and chat platform, Headliner Labs. The company's CEO and Co-Founder, Caroline Klatt, and COO and Co-Founder Dana Gibber, will join ForwardPMX as Co-Chief Innovation Officers spearheading the agency's voice and chat practice and helping to position clients for growth in a voice-enabled…

The Global Conversational AI Market Expected to Exceed Us$ 16 Billion by 2024 Global AI-driven conversational search platform, Zoovu, announced that it has acquired Belgium-based company, Clever. This move enhances  Zoovu’s current offering by adding NLP and a sophisticated Intent Engine. According to Market Research Engine, the global Conversational AI market is expected to exceed more than US$ 16 Billion by 2024 at a CAGR of 30% in the given forecast period. Clever is a conversational search company that specialises…

Creative Virtual, a world leader in customer and employee engagement solutions, today announced a commercial partnership with Spitch AG, the leading developer of enterprise speech solutions in Switzerland. The collaboration will utilise the best-of-breed technologies of both companies to provide their customers with innovative self-service solutions. The integration of Creative Virtual’s V-Person natural language chatbots and virtual agents and Spitch’s voice technologies brings an industry-leading voicebot offering to the…